Taulie Tails

Live 2 Stash

taulie75 — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:53:05 +0000

Live 2 Knit is now Wired For Fibre

Rita 80% Superwash Merino/20% Nylon in Tidal colourway x1 Skein

Rita 80% Superwash Merino/20% Nylon in Heaven colourway x1 Skein

Ginger 63% Superwash Merino/20% Silk/15% Nylon/2% REAL Silver in Nirvana colourway x1 Skein

Ginger 63% Superwash Merino/20% Silk/15% Nylon/2% REAL Silver in Lavish colourway x1 Skein

Elizabeth 100% Superwash Merino in Phoenix colourway x2 skeins

Shirley 100% Superwash Merino in Blaze colourway x2 skeins

I got all of these from Wired for Fibre on lay-by except for the Elizabeth in Phoenix colourway which I procured from a Ravelry sale/trade.

Clapotis

taulie75 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:23:26 +0000

Yarn: Cleckheaton Bamboo
Purchased: Stich n Time in Canberra
Pattern: Clapotis by Kate Gilbert
Yardage: 125 meters x 4 skeins used
Needles: 4mm Knit Picks Options

On Ravelery

My Aunty Carol chose the colourway. It is important to me that you know this.

This yarn itself is fabulous (apart from the colour, that is) – silky, smooth, well plied, fantastic drape, gorgeous sheen etc. It is a strange weight, though, as it is not quite fingering and not quite sport. But I hate the colourway.

I had never done drop-stitch before but I really enjoyed the effect, and I think the Cleckheaton Bamboo helped to make this an enjoyable, mindless knit (as long as I ignored the colours). It knit up quite fast, taking only 17 days from start to finish and I was pretty inconsistant with the amount of time I spent on it. I stared it on the 10th of March and finished by the 27th.

I watched Star Trek: Deep Space 9 whilst knitting this. I will always associate the show with The Clapotis, just like I associate Star Trek: Voyager with Big Sack Sweater and Doctor Who: Series 2 with Under The Hoodie.

The yarn is sooooooo pastel. I HATE pastel …. urge.. to.. kill.. rising…

There are no photos of me wearing the Clapotis or even having it touch my body. I don’t want any record that I touched yarn that is so saturated with pastelly fugliness. I wish I could have worn surgical gloves while knitting it. Did I mention that I am not fond of pastel, let alone so many different pastels all in the one place?

But my Aunt Carol loves it which is what it is all about, in the end.

Skronchable Skarf

taulie75 — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 04:22:35 +0000

This photo is probs the truest to the actual colour of Pearl Ten.

Yarn: MMMalabrigo Merino Worsted Pearl Ten
Purchased: Yarn and Kisses
Pattern: Scrunchable Scarf by Susan McConne
Yardage: 198M
Needles: 6mm Knit Picks Options

On Ravelery

Hi, my name is CrowJane and I am an addict. It all started a month ago when I received my first shipment of MMMalabrigo Merino Worsted. And I have no intention whatsoever of giving up this addiction. In fact, I have quite the opposite in mind. I’m going to feed the addiction until I have the biggest Mal habit known to Womankind (because I put a capital W in Womankind, Womankind includes the male of the species -just like when someone puts a capital in front of Mankind, women are supposed to feel included – I never do).

I love it. Truly. It is 100% wool and it doesn’t itch. At all. Not even a little bit. Not even when I am think about mosquitoes and fleas and head-lice and midges – it is like a scarf made from Calamine Lotion. Genius. The scarf only took 1 skein and 11 days – and for 6 of those days I was only knitting sporadically as I was on walk-about.

If you haven’t already – GO BUY YOURSELF SOME MALABRIGO!

S.E.X. in Sydney & Cyber S.E.X.

taulie75 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:12:54 +0000

So, I made an impromptu visit to Sydney for 5 days and managed to find myself in Morris & Sons (aka Tapestry Craft) a couple of hours after landing on a Stash Enhancing eXpedition (S.E.X. to us knitters). I had a non-knitting friend with me – which was probs a wise move as I am on a very limited budget, but they were having an awesome sale so I actually saved money by spending money (shut up – it does too work that way). 4 skeins of Noro Silk Garden & and some Knit Picks knickknacks later, I left. It was a similar feeling to eating a small amount of a delicious dessert – happy that you ate some but wanting more at the same time.

Noro Silk Garden colours 268 & 8

Yesterday afternoon I got home from trip and found these goodies awaiting my stroking and fondling:

Handmaiden Lady Godiva in Paris colourway

Malabrigo Silky Merino - Azul Azul

Malabrigo Silky Merino Plum Blossom

I got the Malabrigo Silky Merino from Yarnandkisses and the Handmaiden Lady Godiva was purchased at Purl Yarns.

I’ll never be rich.

Everything In Moderation

taulie75 — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:45:00 +0000

A few days back Katie, owner of Live 2 Knit bestowed upon me the honour of co-moderating the Live 2 Kint-ers group on Ravelry. Katie makes some of the most beautiful coloured yarn in Australia. And she has an online lay-by feature which is both incredibly cool and a little bit evil – for as long as she offers lay-by, I think I shall always have a skein or five or gorgeous yarn in my shopping cart.

These are my Live 2 Knit purchases to date and (of course) I have a few more on lay-by:

Claudette 100% cashmere in Blush colourway

Claudette 100% cashmere in Brindle colourway

Claudette 100% cashmere in Sea Glass colourway

Claudette 100% cashmere in Maple colourway

Claudette 100% cashmere in Sublime colourway

Ava 100% DK silk in Phoenix colourway

MMMMMalabrigo Delivery!

taulie75 — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:48:43 +0000

Cadmium

Pearl Ten

So, as the more astute members of my audience have already guessed, I got a MMMMMMalabrigo Merino Worsted delivery today from Yarn and Kisses. Four soft, squishy, lofty and luxurious skeins – two of the golden Cadmium and two of the very hard to photograph deep grey/purple Pearl Ten.

Of course, I couldn’t wait too wind at least some of my new arrivals into cakes so enter the wooden swift and Royal winder:

Royal Winder & eBay purchased wooden swift

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!111!!11111!ONE!!!!!

Disclaimer: It is not my house and therefore I am not in any way responsible for the “decorations” you may see in the background of my photos. It is very important to me that you understand this.

Under The Hoodie Progress Report 4

taulie75 — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:45:51 +0000

Yarn: Cleackheaton “Country Silk” Colurways 9 (grey), 7 (deep red/pink) & 2 (soft pink)
Pattern: Under The Hoodie - Stitch n Bitch
Yardage: 95M
Needles: 5mm & 4.5mm

On Ravelry

it is 2.30 am – I’ll write about this FO at a more decent hour…

CPH

taulie75 — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:25:56 +0000

May I present to you my favourite cardigan in-the-making – Central Park Hoodie! Made form Bendigo Woollen Mills Rustic 12ply in the Red Tweed colour – not the softest yarn but there is absolutely no pilling and this cardigan is going to last forever. So far, the vast majority of knitting my CPH has been completed while watching Battlestar Galactica - I knit faster during the action scenes. It is very pretty and an addictive pattern but I haven’t worked on it for a few months. It was also the very first thing I knit with my Knit Picks Options Nickel Plated Deluxe set. These needles have been the best knitting accessory I have EVER bought. I highly recommend them.

Isn’t the yarn pretty? I am very happy with my CPH so far.

Well, well, well. Look what the cat(s) dragged in…

taulie75 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:01:54 +0000

So, after an 15 month leave of absence, I’m back. Let’s just pretend that I never left.

Noro Striped Scarf

Yarn: Noro Silk Garden 84 & 211
Purchased: Wool Baa during a 36 hour visit to Melbourne
Pattern: Noro Striped Scarf by Jared Flood
Yardage: 100M
Needles: 4.5mm

On Ravelry

Discussion:

I started this scarf on 18/02/2008 and finished on 08/03/2008. I bought the yarn in a great little LYS in Melbourne, Wool Baa, during a quick 36 hour holiday that I took down there to see the Nick Cave Exhibition (but that’s a whole ‘nother post).

I knit about 5cm of the scarf and I kept on thinking “the sides really don’t look right” but like the apathetic idiot I am, I kept right on knitting anyway. I got to 30cm and decided that I just couldn’t live with how wrong the edges looked. And that is really saying something coz I’m very much from The Meh-Near-Enough-Is-Good-Enough School of Knitted Perfection. So I looked on to Ravelry to see exactly how and where I was fucking it up. I figured out that I was holding the yarn incorrectly whilst performing the slips purlwise so I frogged what I had done and started again.

I doubt I would have been driven to such extremes like ripping out a simple ribbed scarf if it wasn’t for the fact that after an incredibly short time, I was completely smitten by my creation.

The colours! My god, the colours! Look at the colours and note how they accent and compliment, accentuate and enhance every colour change before and after each stripe. Scroll back up – I’ll wait for you. There, do you see what I mean?

I spent a fair while sitting on the floor at the Wool Baa choosing which two colourways would most suit me and each other and my decision was flawless (in my most humble and unbiased opinion).

It is the most beautiful object I have made to date.

Play For Today

taulie75 — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:15:37 +0000

I haven’t been knitting much lately – the odd Band Cuffs here, working my Calista’s McQueen Knock-Off there.

What I have been spending most of my time doing is thinking about and reading Harry Potter and playing my PS2. I finally finished Kingdom Hearts II and started playing GTA: Vice City and God of War. Gotta go to top up with caffiene and kill some more denizens of Hades.